Torrid Women's 75-kg Category: Part II

Doha, Qatar - After the snatches, things could have gone either way: Everyone could have been satisfied, or, appetites whetted, they could have wanted more.

Rock solid, Liu Chunhong jerks 159 kg, for the gold medal in the jerk and the total, and junior and senior world records in the jerk and the total. IronMind® | Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D. photo. 
Rock solid, Liu Chunhong jerks 159 kg, for the gold medal in the jerk and the total, and junior and senior world records in the jerk and the total. IronMind® | Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D. photo.

Whichever they preferred, more is what they got.

Of the top three, Zabolotnaya opened first, with 148 kg, and the lift was good for the junior and senior world records in the total, and she power jerked the weight, making it look effortless. Podobedova, who is blindingly fast getting under the bar, opened with 149, to move into first in the jerk and second in the total. Liu opened with 150, going for first in the jerk and second in the total, and made a very solid lift. Zabolotnaya took 153 on her second attempt and once again she power jerked the weight, and the lift looked good, but she lost it overhead, even after chasing it forward.

Koppel still had one lift left, and she took the same 153 for an attempt at the world record in the jerk - if she succeeded, it would be the first world record by an Argentinean weightlifter, ever. She went after it full bore, but got crushed and dumped trying to rack the bar. Podobedova called for 155 on her second attempt, for first in the jerk and the total, along with the junior and senior world records in the jerk and the total, and she succeeded.

Liu called for the same weight on her second attempt, to bump Podobedova on body weight, and she made another very solid lift.

Zabolotnaya took 155 on her third attempt, aiming at first in the total and third in the jerk, and she power jerked the weight, for the junior and senior world record in the total. Liu went for 159 on her third attempt, for first in the jerk and total, plus the junior and senior world records in the jerk, and she made yet another strong lift - capping off a perfect day.

Podobedova had the last attempt and what less would you expect from her than a shot at 162 kg - which would give her the gold medals in the jerk and total, as well as the junior and senior world records in the jerk and total. She cleaned the weight strongly, got set for a long time, seemed to hesitate, and then just didn't drive the bar high enough to jerk it.

At the end of this frenzy, Liu had beaten Zabolotnaya on body weight for the total, with 285 kg, and Popobedova followed in bronze medal position with 279.

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